I am now considering returning to the millennium journal pieces I made fifteen years ago. In 2007 I put the project away with twenty two panels left to stitch and am now thinking of completing them. Instead of separate wall hangings, I think that I will stitching all those months together. The work would be an environment more than an installation. It would be too large for a gallery - unless hung from the ceiling, allowed to drape, or be folded up. myself.

Personal Language

Each panel also has a single meaningful word from each day couched onto the reverse side. Although this text is from my real life, there is not enough to tell a story and hopefully this mystery would encourage personal memories or stories.

Why complete this project now?

It demonstrates my sustained interest in our the two sides - the inner interesting side as well as the more obvious outer side. It also demonstrates my fascination with how fast time passes and my use of time as a material.

I really love the idea of the work being an environment that can't be seen all at once that you have to spend time in to absorb it, that stays in the viewer's memory rather than glanced at and forgotten.

Carrie, your comment has stayed with me. I love the idea of the work being like a place one would visit, walk through, and not be able to really see it all, but that it would remain with the viewer for a long time because of the body's movement through it. That's how we 'know' things isn't it. We live with them.x